Drama Movies
Wise Blood (1979)
A Southerner–young, poor, ambitious but uneducated–determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his…
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to…
Jesus (1979)
Three and a half years of Jesus’ ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.
…And Justice for All (1979)
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Home Before Midnight (1979)
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
The Miracle Worker (1979)
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with…
Goldengirl (1979)
A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
Cocaine Cowboys (1979)
A rock band is on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they’ve juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians and their manager wish to sever ties with organized-crime,…
Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)
The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a…
Time After Time (1979)
Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
Gal Young ‘Un (1979)
Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lying bootlegger who needs money and…
Churchill and the Generals (1979)
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Heartland (1979)
Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor’s application for work as a housekeeper is accepted by Clyde Stewart,…
The Bitch (1979)
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
Oh My Son! (1979)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job….
The Tempest (1979)
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He’s in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples….
Scum (1979)
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys’ struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain’s notorious Borstal Reformatory.
The Onion Field (1979)
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming…
Seven (1979)
A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (1979)
Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
Disco Godfather (1979)
Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood.
Autumn Born (1979)
Luna (1979)
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979)
The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off…